From: usenet@delete.this.baradel.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message <1htp9w1izxdj9.zxylfgeragpt$.dlg@40tude.net>, Brian M. Scott   
    writes   
   >On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:46:37 -0400, "Kevin J. Cheek"   
   > wrote in   
   > in   
   >rec.arts.sf.misc:   
   >   
   >> In particularly, spelling out the group name rather than   
   >> use rasm would have done wonders to clarify what was   
   >> going on. Since I skim the topics, I did not notice that   
   >> it had been agreed to create (I assume the newsgroup was   
   >> created for this purpose) rasm for hot button topics.   
   >   
   >It was not: it already existed, with a description   
   >compatible with such use, and was not otherwise being used   
   >for much of anything.  There was a good deal of discussion   
   >when the decision was made, and the policy has been in   
   >effect for a while now; it would not have occurred to me   
   >that someone whom I recognize as something of a rasfc   
   >regular might be unaware of it.   
   >   
   Yes, I apologise to Kevin for making assumptions, but like Brian, I   
   recognised your name as a regular and thus thought you were au fait with   
   the "side room for off-topic discussion" agreement.   
      
   Helen   
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